Books, Arts, and Culture

The best all-around ereader is now even better. Better because it is waterproof. Read in the bath. On the beach. In the shower. And we have...

Of herself, Sarah Smarsh writes, “I was the proverbial teen pregnancy, my very existence the mark of poverty. I was in a poor girl’s lining like...

Sherry Turkle’s book “Alone Together” diagnoses the ironic isolation of our age Photo by Avi Richards One night in 2009, Andrey Ternovskiy, a seventeen-year-old Russian high school student,...

On February 5, judges announced the shortlist for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. While the first book from the shortlist won’t appear in English...

Charles Bukowski was a prolific author and poet of the 20th century whose unfiltered style and raw honesty garnered a cult following. The German American’s works...

I am not a big Valentine’s Day person. I know there are people who love it, but for me, it’s always felt forced and overly commercialized....

Every book has the right time and place in one’s life; this is a belief I have always firmly held on to. I grew up in...

New year, new you! Well, if only it was that easy. That’s how I feel about going vegan. It’s one of those things that sounds so...

Indie bookstores are in trouble and facing constant threats. In the running to kill them are Amazon, ereaders, our dwindling interest in print, and MY GOD...

When I was a little girl, I discovered my love for fantasy books by reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I was nine years...